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Tristezas de la calle Corrientes · Domingo Federico · 1952

Domingo FedericoCarlos Valdez, Julia de AlbatangoRCA Victor
Music by Domingo Federico, lyrics by Homero Expósito. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1942–1952.

Who recorded it

Every version3

Earliest we hold: Miguel Caló, 1942

  1. Aníbal TroiloFrancisco Fiorentino1942
  2. Miguel CalóRaúl Berón1942
  3. Domingo FedericoCarlos Valdez · Julia de Alba1952

Recorded on Sep 11, 1952, during the Golden Age (1935–1954).

1952

19351954

Domingo Federico · no periods written yet

The song

The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.

3 orchestras recorded it

58 Dances filmed to it

Who wrote it

Music
Domingo Federico
Words
Homero Expósito
Written
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First played
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Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Lyrics

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Calle como valle de monedas para el pan... Río sin desvío donde sufre la ciudad... ¡Qué triste palidez tienen tus luces! ¡Tus letreros sueñan cruces! ¡Tus afiches carcajadas de cartón! Risa que precisa la confianza del alcohol. Llantos hechos cantos pa' vendernos un amor. Mercado de las tristes alegrías... ¡Cambalache de caricias donde cuelgan la ilusión! Triste. ¡Si por ser nuestra! Triste. ¡Si, porque sueñas! Tu alegría es tristeza y el dolor de la espera te atraviesa... ¡Y con pálida luz vivís llorando tus tristezas! Triste. ¡Si, por ser nuestra! Triste. ¡Si, por tu cruz! Vagos con halagos de bohemia mundanal. Pobres, sin más cobres que el anhelo de triunfar, ablandan el camino de la espera con la sangre toda llena de cortados, en la mesa de algún bar. Calle como valle de monedas para el pan... Río sin desvío donde sufre la ciudad... Los hombres te vendieron como a Cristo y el puñal del obelisco te desangra sin cesar.

English · machine translation

Street as a valley of coins for bread... River without detour where the city suffers... What a sad pallor your lights have! Your signs dream of crosses! Your posters cardboard laughter! Laughter that needs the confidence of alcohol. Cries made songs to sell us a love. Market of sad joys... A caresses' caches where they hang the illusion! Sad. Yes for being ours! Sad. Yes, because you dream! Your joy is sadness and the pain of waiting pierces you... And with pale light you live weeping for your sadness! Sad. Yes, for being ours! Sad. Yes, for your cross! Vague with flattery of worldly bohemia. Poor, with no other cash than the yearning to succeed, they soften the path of waiting with their blood all full on the table of some bar. Street like a valley of coins for bread... River without detour where the city suffers... Men sold you like Christ and the dagger of the obelisk bleeds you without ceasing.

Every version

Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone

The catalogue holds 3 recordings of this song by 3 orchestras, 1942 to 1952.
1940’50
Recordings of Tristezas de la calle Corrientes · Domingo Federico · 1952 by year, taller the more they are danced · 3 of 3 recordings carry a year · read Nov 3, 2026

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 6 more we know of

a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to

The leader is Miguel Caló, 1942, with 88% of the 58 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.

3 more dances name this song but not which version, so no share counts them. “No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Miguel CalóEarliest we holdMost dancedTristezas de la calle CorrientesMiguel CalóRaúl BeróntangoOdeon
    51 dances · 88%
    1942
  2. Domingo FedericoTristezas de la calle CorrientesDomingo FedericoCarlos Valdez, Julia de AlbatangoRCA Victor
    4 dances · 7%
    1952
  3. Aníbal TroiloTristezas de la calle CorrientesAníbal TroiloFrancisco FiorentinotangoRCA Victor
    3 dances · 5%
    1942
  4. Orquesta Típica PorteñaNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche · Jul 21976
  5. Libertad LamarqueNot in our catalogue
  6. Roberto GoyenecheNot in our catalogue
  7. Mario MauranoNot in our catalogueLibertad Lamarque
  8. Armando CupoNot in our catalogueMiguel Montero
  9. Raúl Miguel GarelloNot in our catalogueRoberto Goyeneche

One recording

A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.

Domingo Federico

Tristezas de la calle CorrientesDomingo FedericoCarlos Valdez, Julia de AlbatangoRCA Victor

No couple filmed dancing this recording yet

Recorded the same day

What else Domingo Federico recorded on Sep 11, 1952.

  1. Valsecito de antesDomingo FedericoArmando MorenovalsRCA Victor

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Data: recordings, facts and sources

Audio feature15

Audio feature 123.0

Audio feature 0.934

Audio feature F

Audio feature minor

Audio feature 0.684

Audio feature -23.3

Audio feature 0.453

Audio feature 0.23

Audio feature 0.467

Audio feature 0.039

Audio feature 0.0

Audio feature 0.494

Audio feature 123.8

Audio feature 61.9

Audio feature step

Vocal1

Vocal sung

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  1. Tristezas de la calle CorrientesMiguel CalóRaúl Berón

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